Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts

zebidiah@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  It also got affected.

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  • zebidiah@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    God fucking damnit, can’t I even be poor in peace, JFC!

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Although it’s ambiguous how much of this is due to AI data centres and how much is the natural ramp-down of DDR4 production.

    DDR3 also increased substantially in price a few years after DDR4 became available.

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  • knexcar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Is DDR3 affected too?

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• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Im still gaming on a 15 year old cpu and ddr3, lol. Playing a decent amount of new games. Only one that wont run is alan wake 2 and that may be because of linux .

  Amd fx 8 core.

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